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GunzCoty
reply to post by AnarchoCapitalist
I'm confused, Ayman al-Zawahiri wants to bite the hand that is feeding him?
nfflhome
I think that we had an agreement with AQ and the rest of the rebels about getting involved in Syria and after the British vote down and the chemical weapon fiasco and the overwelming desire of Americans to stay out of this fight we are about to abandon our agreement. AQ is mad and now making threats aganst the U.S.. Obamas Bay Of Pigs if you will.
OtherSideOfTheCoin
reply to post by AnarchoCapitalist
Describing Bin Laden as the leader of the "Afghan Mujahedin" is actually laughable, he was no such thing...
Regardless nice catch, but please go take a history lesson.
After leaving college in 1979, bin Laden went to Pakistan, joined Abdullah Azzam and used money and machinery from his own construction company to help the mujahideen resistance in the Soviet war in Afghanistan.[72] He later told a journalist: "I felt outraged that an injustice had been committed against the people of Afghanistan."[73] Under Operation Cyclone from 1979 to 1989, the United States provided financial aid and weapons to the mujahideen through Pakistan's ISI. Bin Laden met and built relations with Hamid Gul, who was a three-star general in the Pakistani army and head of the ISI agency. Although the United States provided the money and weapons, the training of militant groups was entirely done by the Pakistani Armed Forces and the ISI.
By 1984, bin Laden and Azzam established Maktab al-Khidamat, which funneled money, arms and fighters from around the Arab world into Afghanistan. Through al-Khadamat, bin Laden's inherited family fortune[74] paid for air tickets and accommodation, paid for paperwork with Pakistani authorities and provided other such services for the jihadi fighters. Bin Laden established camps inside Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan and trained volunteers from across the Muslim world to fight against the Soviet puppet regime, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. It was during this time that he became idolised by many Arabs.[6]
The CIA is going to blow up an American city, blame it on Assad or the al-Qaeda rebels fighting in Syria, and then invade Syria.
OtherSideOfTheCoin
reply to post by AnarchoCapitalist
The CIA is going to blow up an American city, blame it on Assad or the al-Qaeda rebels fighting in Syria, and then invade Syria.
Are you honestly trying to say that the CIA is going to blow up a US City then blame it on Assad as a pretext to war?
They did it for Afghanistan and Iraq.
OtherSideOfTheCoin
reply to post by AnarchoCapitalist
They did it for Afghanistan and Iraq.
What false flag did they use for Iraq?
Iraq, let me remind you, was not about 9/11 it was about WMD's and Saddam allegedly having links to terrorists and just in general not being a very nice guy.
But they did not use any kind of attack on American soil to justify attacking Iraq.
WASHINGTON – U.S. intelligence services unanimously agreed last fall that “no specific intelligence information” tied Iraq to U.S. terrorist attacks, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Their findings were presented to the president Oct. 2 in a still-secret report on Iraq. The summary, or “key judgments” section, of the 90-page National Intelligence Estimate was declassified Friday. WorldNetDaily obtained a copy from the National Security Council. (The report is different from the unclassified 25-page white paper the CIA made public on its website last October.)
Page 4 of the report states: “… [W]e have no specific intelligence information that Saddam’s regime has directed attacks against U.S. territory.”
The statement would appear to undercut a popular theory among Iraq hawks that Baghdad conspired with al-Qaida operatives to try to blow up New York’s Twin Towers in 1993, and possibly sponsored the repeat attack on them in 2001.
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, Iraq hard-liners – including Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and former CIA Director James Woolsey – have openly embraced the theory, first published in the book “The War Against America: Saddam Hussein and the World Trade Center Attacks.”
In fact, Woolsey wrote the foreword to the book, authored by Laurie Mylroie, an adjunct fellow at the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute, or AEI. Woolsey, who has argued for starting “World War IV” in the Middle East, called the book “brilliant and brave.”
Wolfowitz, a leading “neoconservative,” said it “argues powerfully that the shadowy mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing … was in fact an agent of Iraqi intelligence.”
Mylroie, pronounced “MIL-roy,” insists there is a wealth of evidence tying Iraq to the first World Trade Center attack, much of it gathered by the New York office of the FBI during the investigation of bombing mastermind Ramzi Yousef.
Problem is, she argues, “the CIA didn’t want to look at it.”
OtherSideOfTheCoin
reply to post by AnarchoCapitalist
Oh i remember it, i was out on the streets demonstrating against it.
9/11 Was not a justification for Iraq however the administration at the time tried to imply a connection to Al-Qa'ida and iraq.